Hey, it’s New Mexico. Little different from Old Mexico. If one isn’t an illicit drug user, dealer, runner, broker or manufacturer it would behoove one to get his ass out of there or start a group of vigilantes and start cleaning out the rats nest before it consumes the good guys still remaining.
Being one of those NM natives that ran over a decade ago, I can honestly say NM is a whole different animal and not to far removed from old Mexico.
I recently completed Travis’s book centered on NM. It is accurate in my memory of Albuquerque. I listened to the radio talk show host in the afternoon that is a character in his book, I heard callers tell him to get his Anglo self out of NM (not as nicely of course). I am sure he endured worse. I am familiar with the racism, the anger, the idea that whitey stole land.
The political corruption would blow your mind. Remember, NM gave us Bill Richardson. Tax monies being spent to pave private roads for politicians, monuments being built to themselves. Generational welfare, and the admins teaching you how to beat the system. Being registered to vote democrat to receive benefits. There aren’t many guys in NM at all, and there are far too few good guys.
Not too far removed from old Mexico at all, and far worse in the years since I left.